With sitting at the number one spot in the U.S., and , anime’s bold leap into the mainstream has never felt more confident or surprising. For legacy outlets and casual moviegoers alike, the challenge with Chainsaw Man isn’t so much reviewing the film and anime’s signature mix of graphic violence and grief as figuring out how to interpret its overt horniness. And I’ve been loving every second seeing it on my timeline.

One Rotten Tomatoes critic quote from —“It’s hard

You. Yes, you!  The person reading this. Have you ever strolled down the street on a crisp autumn day and thought to yourself “I could be playing the 2010 action game Vanquish , developed by PlatinumGames at the peak of their mastery, at this very moment?” If that thought has ever crossed your mind, then I have good news for you. There is, in fact, very little stopping you from playing one of the best action games ever made provided you have about twenty dollars

Netflix has closed Squid Game: Unleashed developer Boss Fight Entertainment, according to former staff. News spread about the closure on Thursday, just days after on Tuesday. Boss Fight was acquired by Netflix in 2022.

"Well, word has gotten around quickly about Boss Fight’s closure," co-founder and studio director David Rippy wrote in a post on . "Rough news, for sure, but I’m very grateful for the time we had at Netflix. We worked with some awesome people

Another week, another baffling headline out of Microsoft. The latest is at least illustrative: , the company has set an across-the-board goal of 30 percent “accountability margins” – Microsoft’s weird, somehow-worse-sounding term for profit margins – which explains why its gaming division has been rampantly laying off employees, canceling games, and closing studios. So now we know the directive that informed numerous questionable decisions, but why keep doing it? On the latest Aftermath Hours, we wonder if

The maker of one of Roblox 's top games is taking brainrot to court. Developer Spyder Games filed a complaint in a California court on Thursday, , over what it calls a copy of its record-breaking Steal A Brainrot .

Steal A Brainrot is consistently within the top three games on Roblox . It's a simple game: You collect and steal brainrots from other players. It's kind of like capture the flag, but instead of one or two flags, there's a lot. And they

One of the desperate arguments for AI is that it will help people be creative without all the practice and hard work that goes into actually creating something–that, as science fiction writer Ted Chiang wrote at last year, “art can be all inspiration and no perspiration.” A world where whatever enters your head can be immediately externalized is already one of the best reasons for deleting all your social media accounts, but lately we’ve seen politicians use generative AI to show us the unfettered horrors of their brains, and

TwitchCon, which took place last weekend in San Diego, California, is an overlapping series of cacaphonies. A quick stroll down the show floor reveals a hodgepodge of advertisers like State Farm, booths dedicated to high-profile games like Resident Evil , The Sims , and Minecraft , a tabletop section, a music stage Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has been known to perform on, and eventually, an esports arena. There are also panels in various rooms, as well as an artist alley like you’d find at Comic-

This is a new story, in that there is a new story today about it, but this is also a very old story, in that the same shit has been happening in video games for as long as there have been video games.

That story is crediting. Or, to be clear, the lack of proper crediting. The issue is back in the headlines today after staffers at Ridgeline Games, who worked on Battlefield 6 in some cases for years , .

Like I said, this is not a new problem